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Cold War Timeline
AP US History · Unit 8: 1945–1980
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1. The Truman Doctrine (1947) committed the US to:
Isolationism
Containing the spread of communism
Nuclear disarmament
Free trade
2. The closest the world came to nuclear war was:
Korean War
Bay of Pigs
Cuban Missile Crisis
Berlin Airlift
3. The Berlin Wall fell in:
1985
1989
1991
1987
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